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A23
MONDAY,
JULY 22,
2013
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NEW YORK---Caribbean American Congresswoman
Yvette D Clarke has welcomed a plan by New York City
(NYC) to aid undocumented Caribbean immigrants.
NYC officials say the city will spend US$18 million to help
undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants find jobs.
City council speaker Christine Quinn, a mayoral candidate,
said the money will fund adult education classes and legal
services that the US federal government requires immi-
grants to take to qualify for the Deferred Action for Child-
hood Arrivals programme.
The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project will provide
free legal services to immigrants threatened with deporta-
tion who are unable to represent themselves in proceedings.
"New York has always been a city of immigrants within a
nation of immigrants," said Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican
immigrants, who represents the 9th Congressional District in
Brooklyn.
"Under this programme, thousands of immigrants in
Brooklyn and other parts of the city will finally have an op-
portunity to challenge the deportation proceedings that sep-
arate families and weaken communities," she said. (CMC)
US lawmaker welcomes plan to aid Caribbean immigrants
ROSEAU---The shareholder gov-
ernments of the regional airline,
Liat, are discussing proposals that
would allow Venezuela to have an
interest in the airline, Prime Min-
ister Roosevelt Skerrit has
announced.
Skerrit said Caracas has expressed
an interest in investing in the regional
airline company and that a draft
agreement has already been provided
to shareholders for their considera-
tion.
"I believe it is an absolutely good
move if we were to get Venezuela to
invest in Liat to provide Liat with
the much needed financial and tech-
nical support that it requires. It could
also mean additional business for
Liat.
"If we could get Conviasa (the
national airline of Venezuela) to serv-
ice flights from Brazil and from
Venezuela and all the Latin and South
American countries and transport
them to a hub in the Caribbean and
then take them to their respective
destinations within the Caribbean
then it means additional business for
Liat," Skerrit said.
He said that further discussions
will be held with Caracas on the issue.
"We intend to continue these dis-
cussions with the government of
Venezuela in respect to the draft
agreement, MoU, which was sent for
consideration.
"There are some aspects of it
which I believe are clear and straight
forward but there are other aspects
of it which will need further discus-
sions among ourselves as the existing
shareholders first and then to raise
them with the government of
Venezuela," he said.
Meanwhile, Skerrit said that his
administration, which has already
invested three million dollars (one
EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) into the
regional airline, will soon make anoth-
er financial contribution to the cash-
strapped airline.
"One of the things that we re dis-
cussing with Liat at present that we
have not finalised yet, but I have
agreed to it in principle, subject to
the approval of the Parliament, is
that Liat is seeking to contract a loan
from the Caribbean Development
Bank (CDB).
"However, Liat itself cannot enter
into a loan agreement with the CDB,
so it will require shareholder gov-
ernments to guarantee portions of
the Liat investment. The proportion
we will have to guarantee as a gov-
ernment is about US$2.5 million for
Liat. Liat will service the loan but we
will simply guarantee the loan," Skerrit
said.
The Liat shareholder governments
are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica,
Barbados and St Vincent and the
Grenadines.
The Antigua-based carrier, which
flies to 21 destinations in the
Caribbean, is in the process of replac-
ing its aging fleet and has put a price
tag of US$100 million on the re-
fleeting exercise. It said it is seeking
to borrow between US$60 and US$70
million from the CDB.
The airline last December unveiled
a new business plan it said would
help reverse an EC$43 million loss
in 2011, while projecting a two per
cent profit in 2013. (CMC)
Liat owners
mull proposal to
include Venezuela
Sharan Chandradath Singh, director of institutional advancement
and internationalisation at the University of the West Indies
presents Tamara Prosper with a cheque at the entrepreneurship
boot camp 2013 awards ceremony, held in St Augustine,
yesterday. Also in the photo is executive manager, development
support services at Nedco Adwin Cox. PHOTO: ABRAHAM DIAZ
ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOT CAMP AWARDS